US804865A - Cleansing device for washbasins. - Google Patents

Description

No. 804,865. PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

J. E. KEYT. CLEANSING DEVICE FOR WASHBASINS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.12, 1905.

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J OHN EDWIN KEYT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO WILLIAM ALLINGHAM,

OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CLEANSING DEVICE FOR WASHBASINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. NOV. 21, 1905.

Application filed January 12, 1905. Serial No. 240,796.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN EDWIN KEYT, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleansing Devices for VVashbasins; and I do declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in flushing devices for the overflow-passages of wash basins or bowls; and it consists in certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character by means of which the usual overflow channel or passage of a wash bowl or basin may be quickly flushed by a stream of hot or cold water for the purpose of the moving all dirt or waste matter from resame and also from the usual basin-trap into which said overflow channel or passage discharges.

The above and other objects, which will appear as the nature of my invention is better understood, are accomplished by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View through the flushing or cleaning device constructed in accordance with my invention and applied to a wash bowl or basin having the usual overflow channel or passage, and Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings by numeral, 1 denotes the usual basin top or slab, beneath the opening in which is secured the usual wash basin or bowl 2. The latter has an outlet-opening 3 at its bottom and one or more overflow outlet-openings 5 adjacent to its upper end. These openings 5 communicate with the upper end of the usual overflow passage or channel 6, which is formed in an integral casing or shell 7 upon the outer side of the basin 2. 1 The shell or casing 7 has its upper end a slight distance below the top or slab l and forms a projecting shoulder which extends from the basin. The lower end of this channel or passage 6 communicates with the bottom outlet 3 of the bowl, and to the latter is attached a waste-pipe 8, in which is located the usual trap 9. The connection of the waste-pipe to the bottom outlet 3 of the basin is preferably effected by internally screw-threading the upper enlarged end 10 of said waste-pipe and screwing into the same a sleeve 11, which fits into said opening 3. This sleeve 11 has a flanged upper end 12 to engage the inner. surface of the basin and an externally -screw threaded lower end 13, which enters the portion 10 of the waste-pipe 8. Said sleeve is also provided with suitable openings 14, which register or aline with the lower end of the overflow channel or passage 6. The usual removable plug or stopper 15 is provided in the upper end of the sleeve 11.

In order to send a stream of either hot or cold water through the overflow-passage 6 and also through the trap 9 for the purpose of thoroughly cleaning the same, I connect, by

means of an elbow 16 and faucet 17, with a water-supply pipe 18 and provide a connection 19 between said faucet and the upper end of the shell or casing 7 of theoverflow channel or passage 6. The said faucet 17 may be of any wellknown or preferred form and construction; but as illustrated it comprises the casing 19, having a reduced externally-screw-threaded tubular lower end 20, which extends through an opening 21, formed in the basin top or slab 1, and which is retained therein by a clampingnut 22. The lower end of the tubular portion 20, to which the elbow is attached, is formed,

with a valve seat 23. Ooacting withsaid valve-seat 23 is a valve 24, secured upon the lower end of a stem or rod 25, which extends through the portion 20 and has its upper end pivotally connected, as at 26, upon the crankarm formed upon an operating stem or shaft 27. The latter extends laterally through a packing-gland 28, provided in the upper portion of the faucet-casing 17, and has upon its outer end a handle 29, by means of which the valve may be moved toward and from its seat.

Upon the upper end or top of the faucet-casing 17 is provided a jewel cup or receptacle 30, which may be of any desired form and construction. Screwed into the portion 20 of the faucet-casing at a suitable point above its.

valve-seat is an outlet-pipe 31, which has its outer end connected, by means of a packing joint or coupling 32, to one end 33 of a connectingpipe 34 The latter is shaped as clearly shown in Fig. 1 and has its Opposite end downturned and projecting at substantially right angles to the end 33. This end 35 is tapered to form a contracted nozzle and projects into an opening 36, formed in the upper end of the shell or casing 7 of the overflow passage or channel 6, so as to discharge a stream directly downwardly into and through said overflow-channel. It will be observed that the connectingpipe 34 has its nozzled end supported on the shoulder formed at the upper end of the shell or casing of the overflow passage or shoulder and that said connecting-pipe bears directly against the under side of the slab or top 1, so that the latter coacts with said shoulder and with the opening therein, in which the contracted end of the nozzle is fitted to firmly secure said connecting-pipe in place.

The construction,operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. It will be seen that by means of this device the overflow-passage 6 and also the trap 9 may be quickly flushed and thoroughly cleaned by simply turning the handle 29 in the proper direction, so that the valve 24: will be lowered from its seat 23.

Various changes in the form, proportion,

and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described washbasin having the overflow-channel on one side thereof, the shell or casing of which projects from said side of the basin and the upper end of which forms the shoulder at a point below the upper edge of the basin, the top or slab on the upper edge of the basin and the faucet for supplying water to the basin and having the pipe for supplying water to the overflow-passage, said pipe having its discharge end fitted between the slab or top of the basin and the shoulder at the upper end of the overflow-channel and provided with the downwardly-directed and contracted nozzle extending through an opening in the said shoulder and discharging into the overflow-channel.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, JOHN EDWIN KEYT. Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. KELLY, W. A. BREEN.

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